There's a cigar/tobacco store here called Cox's Smokers Outlet. It makes me snicker.There's also a carpet outlet store in San Jose called MMM Carpet.. I was visiting a friend there and we passed by.. I said "Mmm, carpet?" He cracked up as he'd never thought of it that way.

In England they pronounce filet more like fillet or fillit, so I can see how Chik-fil-a wouldn't make sense to them at all. "Fillit" steak doesn't sound as nice to me as a filet mignon, even though it is the same cut

If my car is in an accident and I need the dents hammered out of the door, I take it to an American "body shop." If I were in Australia or New Zealand, I'd take it to a "panel beater." First time I saw "panel beater" on a sign, I had no idea what it might be. It certainly conjures up an image of a bunch of folks hammering out those dents.

And when *I* first came to the US and saw "body shop", I wondered why it didn't look girly and relaxing. I thought t would be a place where you'd buy beauty products for your body.

It is if you are in the UK or Australia. The Body Shop sells all sorts of smelly girly things and are renown for selling those gift baskets of soaps and body washes you buy the female in your life you don't know what to buy for.

If my car is in an accident and I need the dents hammered out of the door, I take it to an American "body shop." If I were in Australia or New Zealand, I'd take it to a "panel beater." First time I saw "panel beater" on a sign, I had no idea what it might be. It certainly conjures up an image of a bunch of folks hammering out those dents.

And when *I* first came to the US and saw "body shop", I wondered why it didn't look girly and relaxing. I thought t would be a place where you'd buy beauty products for your body.

It is if you are in the UK or Australia. The Body Shop sells all sorts of smelly girly things and are renown for selling those gift baskets of soaps and body washes you buy the female in your life you don't know what to buy for.

Now that you mention it, I must have seen one of those in France (where I lived prior to the US). Clearly, a US body shop is a rather different animal.

I will always have a fondness for Chik Fil A, as a Romanian friend of mine just could not get the name right. He always called it "cheek a fil." I thought that was adorable.

I have a fondness for Chik-Fil-A since they once came around on BLack Friday and handed out hot chicken sandwiches to everyone waiting in line to announce the opening of a new store...about 5 miles away.

There is a store here in Tucson called The House of Hubcaps. It make me think of Bob & Ray, because it sounds like something they would have come up with.

Schindler is a huge company that is the biggest escalator manufacturer in the world, and a big elevator manufacturer as well.According to wikipedia, they've been around since 1874 so they definitely have seniority - with both Oskar and Spielberg.